Clinical study design

8 important questions on Clinical study design

What are the different options on asking for consent when a patient is unconscious? (4)

  • Deferred consent => acute and not highly invasive
  • Asking next of kin (1. Curator/mentor 2. Written representative 3. Spouse 4. Parent, child, brother)
  • Don't ask if it is a non-WMO study, database research => waiver
  • Don't do the research

What are the restriction of a waiver consent?

You don't have access to patient files or direct patient contact.

  • Working with numbers => no contact with patients, anonymous, the data/notes are not very clear 

What is a challenge of treating patients at the ICU? How do they work with this currently?

Lot's of clinical studies ended up giving a negative result.
So doctors don't really know what to do, how to treat a specific patient.

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On what are current studies focussed at the ICU? And what do you want?

Model prototyping => but you want something that you can really introduce into the workflow.

=> taking biomarker takes too much time.

Describe how subphenotypes are used in research to give the right treatment to the right patient in the ICU.

  • Patient with ARDS => differ in cause, physiology, radiology, biology.
  • Example of subtypes of physiology of ARDS= focal and non-focal ARDS.
  • Based on the subtypes you can choose a ventilation method => randomize within your subgroup => randomize to corresponding strategy
  • You randomize to corresponding strategy because; when you wrongly account a specific strategy to a specific patient this could harm the patient.

Okay but you first have to discover relevant subtypes. How can you study this; study design.

First investigate these subtypes based on other retrospective cohort studies => you need some background knowlegd before starting an interventional study (if it is a completely new idea)
=> you can use a database study => with a waiver.

What is you find a new biomarker, and you want to be sure that it is a good valid biomarker (for example for side effects) how do you test this?

Can be both retrospective and prospective. But prospective is more logical. => you can incorporate more factors in your study; like are doctors able to conduct the test.
How long does it take? What percentage goes wrong?

In these hypo- and hyperinflammatory subphenotypes, how to investigatemultiple interventions?

An adaptive design is defined as a design that allows modifications to the trial and/or statistical procedures of the trial after its initiation without undermining its validity and integrity.

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